About the artist

Cadaveria is the creative alter-ego of Italian-based extreme metal singer Raffaella Rivarolo, better known by her stage name Cadaveria. Cadaveria band was founded in 2001 by Cadaveria herself and drummer Marçelo Santos. Prior to Cadaveria band's formation, both artists were members of symphonic pagan-black metal unit Opera IX. For this, Miss Cadaveria was one of the first women to hit the metal scene in the early Nineties. Since Cadaveria’s debut album The Shadows' Madame, released in 2002 via Scarlet Records, the band’s style is labeled horror metal. Their personal sound is imbued with gloomy and sinister atmospheres and it mixes black metal with classical heavy metal, death metal and gothic influences. The lyrics, scheming, hermetic and introspective, mirror the dark soul and the vexed personality of the singer Cadaveria. Their second album Far Away From Conformity dropped in 2004, followed in 2007 by In Your Blood, the latter of which saw the group move from Scarlet Records to Season of Mist. 2011 saw Cadaveria lend her formidable voice to a cut on Theatres des Vampires’ Moonlight Waltz, and in 2012 the band released their fourth studio album, Horror Metal. In October 2014 the group issued the single Carnival of Doom in anticipation of their fifth outing, Silence, which arrived a month later, and in 2016 they released a split EP, Mondoscuro, with thrash metallers Necrodeath. In late 2017 Cadaveria gave new life to Far Away From Conformity album, re-recording the vocals on two songs, remixing and remastering the whole opus. The new edition came out on December 8, 2017 digitally and on CD. A vinyl limited edition will arrive in January 2018.

Darzamat is a Polish symphonic black metal band formed in 1995. Although there is a claim about Darzamat being a name of a Slavonic forest god, it comes from Latvian mythology denoting garden goddess. Their latest album, Solfernus' Path, was released on August 28, 2009. Darzamat has been signed to Massacre Records since June 2009.

Darkwell is a gothic metal band from Innsbruck, Austria. Formed in 1999 by bassist Roland Wurzer and guitarist Roman Wienicke. Soon after formation, they signed with Napalm Records and released their first album, Suspiria, in 2000. Before the release of Conflict of Interest in 2002 they toured across Europe with Tristania, The Sins of Thy Beloved, Graveworm, and Vintersorg. Supporting their second full-length album, Metatron, they again toured across Europe, with Atrocity, Leaves' Eyes, and Battlelore.

Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk, England in 1991. The band's musical style evolved originally from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic metal and other metal genres. Their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily influenced by Gothic literature, poetry, mythology and horror films. The band has gone through many lineup changes, with vocalist Dani Filth being the only constant member.The band has broken free from its original niche by courting mainstream publicity. This increased accessibility has brought coverage from the likes of Kerrang! and MTV, along with frequent main stage appearances at major festivals such as Ozzfest, Download and even the mainstream Sziget Festival. They have sometimes been perceived as Satanic by casual observers, even though their outright lyrical references to Satanism are few and far between; their use of Satanic imagery has arguably always been more for shock value than any seriously-held beliefs.

Forever Slave is a Spanish gothic metal band, founded by Servalath and vocalist Lady Angellyca in 2000.They recorded two demos, "Hate" and "Schwarzer Engel", in 2000 and 2001 respectively, returning with another demo in 2004, "Resurrection".In September 2005 they released their first full-length album, Alice's Inferno, produced by Lars Ratz and released by Armageddon Music. The group released a second album, Tales for Bad Girls, in April 2008. They are currently working on a follow up

Carach Angren is a symphonic black metal band from the Netherlands, formed by two members of the now-defunct bands Inger Indolia and Vaultage. They have three steady members with previously frequent guest appearances for the violin parts. Their style is characterized by prominent use of orchestral arrangements. All of their studio albums are concept albums with lyrics based on ghost stories and folk lore, such as Flying Dutchman. They set themselves apart from other symphonic black metal artists in showcasing songs often using multiple languages apart from English, such as French, German and Dutch, though every song does use English as a baseline and certain choruses or sections will make the transition.The name means "Iron Jaws" in the Elvish language of Sindarin, and is the name of a fortified pass into North-Western Mordor in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground.Until the late 1990s, the band played a traditional black metal style with heathen lyrical content, but soon changed to that of occult and thelemic themes written by their lead vocalist Nergal and Krzysztof Azarewicz. With the 1999 release of Satanica, the band demonstrated their presence in the death metal scene, while retaining their own signature style characterized by the drum work of Inferno, multi-layered vocals and Middle-Eastern influences. Despite Behemoth having been labeled as death metal or thrash metal-influenced, Nergal has mentioned that he does not like the band to be labeled.

Trail of Tears was a Norwegian gothic/symphonic black metal band originally formed in 1994 by Terje Heiseldal, Kjell Rune Hagen, Jonathan A Perez, Michael Krumins, and Ronny Thorsen, under the name of Natt. Through most of their career the band emphasised the use of contrasting soprano and death grunt vocals, except for the release of Free Fall into Fear in 2005, in which the band switched this contrast mostly to tenor and growls, with less frequent soprano passages. The band disbanded in 2013, being succeeded by Thorsen's project Viper Solfa.